Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question of bringing this branch of the sport up to at least a level of mediocrity, if not of excellence, presents no inherent difficulty. Natural ability in the jumps and weights is not nearly so important a factor as in the running events. Honest effort on the part of reasonably well-conformed men under the direction of efficient coaching is all that is essential...
...love her. The Harvard, the least affected with the false spirit of wealthy aristocracy and snobbery, and the most democratic of our great universities in America; the Harvard, where any poor boy without wealth or social distinction can go, trusting only in the ambition of an honest heart and noble purpose, relying only on his own brain, character and ability, can meet all classes on the common, equal level of privilege and opportunity; be treated as a brother and equal; and thus become inspired with the noblest impulses that can thrill the human soul--the ambition to lift...
Nevertheless, honest and legitimate as are the reasons, there is in the University a notable amount of balance and sanity. Although nearly all the men on the University faculty are actuated by large social sympathy, there is no professor in the Economics department who can fairly be considered an upholder of the revolutionary ideas regarding capital and labor. The only known single-taxer in the University is in the Engineering department; and no course on socialism is given by a "real live" socialist...
...explained to the delegates the objects of the association which are not to abolish college athletics but to make them better. He made a strong plea for courtesy and common sense and said that if the colleges keep, at the head of their athletics, men who try to be honest and who trust each other, half of the evils of intercollegiate athletics will die a natural death...
...theatre is more dependent on economic conditions than any other art, except architecture; and so the theatre falls into the hands of the capitalist, whose honest business it is to make money...